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02-23-89 Parks Comm Minutes4 iPARKS/PUBLIC LANDS/ANNEXATION/BUILDING REGULATION COMMITTEE MEETING February 23, 1989 5:00 P.M. Present at the meeting were Councilmen Furlong (Chairman), Gary Nystul, Jim Atkinson, Roger Hopkins; City Attorney Neier, Surveyor Zavodny, Public Works Director Hammer, Dave Greer, Mike Fraser, Doug Johns (for Developers Diversified), and Keith Wilson (for Lantis). HERITAGE PLACE ANNEXATION: C. Furlong explained what was progressing with the zoning, annexation and subdivision of Heritage Place. He said FRIO had some conditions and a discussion followed. 1. Sewer Main extension. The staff recommended that the sewer will terminate at mid -property and an addendum will be that future development desiring to connect to the extension would be borne by whoever wanted to hook on. 2. Fire Hydrants. C. Furlong stated he had been in touch with the Fire Chief and he thought the current fire hydrants there were satisfactory. 3. Utilities located within recorded easements. There was a discussion regarding the sewer main and hookups. Mike Fraser said Developers Diversified will give the City a 20' easement for the sewer line which will be installed by Lantis. • C. Nystul asked about the street lighting. Keith Wilson stated Lantis would light the parking lot and facility, but they had not discussed the street lighting. There was a brief discussion regarding zoning. Dave Greer said the property is presently in the County and is not zoned, but it will be assigned a zone when it is annexed to the City. He stated everything around that is RA-1, except one spot. MOTION: C. Nystul moved the committee recommend the Council on March 6th to accept the annexation and zoning of Heritage Place, subject to these conditions. C. Atkinson seconded. The motion passed unanimously. HERITAGE PLACE SUBDIVISION: There was some discussion on condition No. 2 regarding the storm drainage disposal. Mike Fraser said the storm drainage has to be acceptable to Public Works, then when the site plan comes in, that is reviewed. David Greer explained that when the final plat comes up for approval all these conditions listed will be checked off if they have been met, and they will not be able to create the subdivision if not all the conditions have been met. Condition No. 3. There was a brief discussion regarding this, David Greer explained these were recommendations from FRDO but subject to approval by the City and they could be changed. Conditon No. 4. The current fire hydrants are acceptable to the Fire Department. There was a discussion about possibly putting in one more, DPW Hammer will get together with the Fire Chief to discuss it. 0 No discussion on Conditions 5 and 6. Condition No. 7. The 70-wide road easement was discussed at length. Mike Fraser gave a history of the Windward Way problem. He stated that in talking with the architects they did not feel that the road was needed at this time. C. Atkinson asked who should bear the cost of building the road, D. Greer said it would be up to Developers Diversifed and Lantis how they would arrange that. Mike Fraser explained the present situation on Windward Way. There was a discussion of what will happen with future development and the need to widen Windward Way. David Greer stated Heritage Way has the capacity to handle the traffic now but that at some point a road will be necessary. He suggested that if we don't pursue a road right now we should at least pursue an easement. DWP Hammer explained that if Developers Diversified continues to develop they would need more highway access and the road would not be necessary. At this point Keith Wilson, representative from Lantis, spoke. He stated that they only have 18 months to build a new nursing home facility as the County Nursing Home will close. He said Lantis does not have time to argue about a road, they are on a tight time frame. He asked that we deal with this as rapidly as possible as they have a March 15 deadline. Fred Zavodny stated he had heard the same pleas from Heritage Health regarding the time factor. He said the City has to look ahead and this is the time to negotiate easements and roads for the benefit of Heritage Health, Lantis, the doctors, and everyone else. He said we have to look beyond this development and seek how we can link these developments together in the absence of a master plan. C. Atkinson asked Mike if we clean up Windward Way, would it be wide enough for two cars? Mike said yes, if we curb and gutter it the first hundred feet as well. DPW Hammer said it could be done. Doug Johns said he had spoken with John McGill at Developers Diversified regarding some recent developments that have been coming from FRDO and the County Commis- sioners' office. He stated that back when Developers Diversified was considering putting in a shopping center and asked about using Windward Way as a second back access the City said no, there were apartments there and they were not going to have a thoroughfare going through there. Now they want to tie it together? Johns said what he wants to do is sit down with the City, the Planning Staff, and the County Commissioners and do a Comprehensive Master Plan for that land. Johns said the City has his assurances that Developers Diversified will grant and create a right-of-way through their land and will cooperate when (1) we can get together and talk about a Comprehensive Plan, and (2) when the City cleans up Windward Way. He stated this is only one of the first of the roadway problems that is going to be addressed. He said he would like to have #7 struck as a condition of the subdivision. C. Nystul asked why go to the expense of building a road in that particular location if in the foreseeable future a master plan could be laid out that would say that going down the east side would not be more beneficial to everyone concerned. iurinnc said we're Duttine that off into the future and in the immediacv we 40 have no inteLnel roi-J for internal traffic. C. Nystul proposed a one year time frame. -2- iKeith Wilson spoke again regarding the time factor. He said Lantis endorses improvement of the traffic conditions but he asked that it not hold up their ability to move ahead while the City hammers out a way to solve this. He said it is not incumbent upon them to build that road for their own needs now. C. Atkinson stated he felt that Windward unless the City does something about it. challenge. Way does not have a whole lot to offer He felt Johns' condition was an excellent C. Furlong stated we would have no control over the master plan. He said we have a chance to do something right now to eliminate congestion and provide for internal traffic. Furlong stated he had tentatively set a meeting for next Thursday at 4:00 P.M., and we can act on it now or act on it later, but we are obligated to meet the deadline of March 6. Fred suggested another link through the land around the water line, from Heritage Way to Sunnyview. There was a discussion of whom the easement came from originally. Doug Johns agreed with Fred and said he is willing to work out a solution as he stated before. C. Hopkins said he thought we could write in the language for the easement now with the understanding that once the master plan is done the easement could be vacated if a more suitable alternative appears later. C. Atkinson stated that he was appalled that we're not willing or excited about • jumping in and pursuing some long-range planning. C. Furlong said he is opposed to addressing it now and that what we do need to address now is Lantis. C. Nystul stated he would like to recess this meeting and continue next Thursday at 4:00 to give the committee some time to look over the situation on Windward Way. David Greer asked Doug Johns what he thought about providing the easement subject to abandonment and/or modification upon acceptance of a master transportation plan for that property and then once that plan is developed Doug would have the right to abandon that if it's not the right alignment and have a time schedule of 18 months or something like that. Doug said he is willing to consider that only if the City cleans up Windward Way. He will not accept item No. 7. Meeting adjourned at 7:10 P.M. Shirley Hughes, Recording Secretary • -3-